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Published: 09/02/2023
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by the Observer
With a new introduction by Amanda Craig

Freda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London. When a works outing materialises it offers promise for Freda, but terror for Brenda. Unexpected passions run high on the chilly day of liberty and their lives are never the same again. Beryl Bainbridge dazzles readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.

'An outrageously funny and horrifying novel'
GRAHAM GREENE

'Two very complex, funny female characters. They need each other although they would never admit it'
MAXINE PEAKE

'Superb... vibrant... profoundly comic'
THE TIMES

'Few writers offer more control and delight'
GUARDIAN

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349145242
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 180 g
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 22 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

This is a superb novel. It is taut in construction, expansive in characterization, vibrant in atmosphere and profoundly comic - The Times

The masterful restraint of Beryl Bainbridge's sentences reveals an author in complete control of her artistry, while the book itself displays unexpected political aptness...It is, in short, superb prose. There are perhaps few sentences that stand out as individual gems. But there are also few writers who offer more control and delight line-by-line - Guardian

After turning the final page of The Bottle Factory Outing, one can only gasp, and grope for the right word...Such an atmosphere of impending doom has not been created since Brighton Rock - except that Beryl Bainbridge is mercilessly comic instead of being mercilessly vicious. Specialising in successive denouements, and with her gift for collecting the most amazing detail, she is so in control of her marvellous little story that one hangs on her words from first to last. What originality, what pleasure - Sunday Times

Two very complex, funny female characters... They need each other although they would never admit it - Maxine Peake

An outrageously funny and horrifying novel - Graham Greene

How well Bainbridge uses both recognizable and even common circumstances and, this time, outright humor as shock absorbers... She's a considerable writer - sharp and knowing - Kirkus

Bainbridge's barbed wit is underpinned by poignant failed dreams... This is a winner by any measure - Daily Mail

There is a uniquely northern comedy in Beryl Bainbridge's novels... It chimes with life's absurdity and hard-won wisdom - John Self, The Times

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“Humour but not for me”

THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING
by
Beryl Bainbridge


Freda and Brenda are the most unlikely of flat mates but circumstances have thrown them together and now they not only live together with little money, they work in an... More

Paperback edition
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Nicole @WstonesHemel

“Silly Women & Italians don't mix”

I looked forward to reading some Beryl Bainbridge for her Booker list but was quite disappointed with this.
The women are silly. Freda a buxom bully looking for love goes about it the wrong way and her friend Brenda... More

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